, 1887-02-20
WINTER NOTES.
Common Occurrences in and About
the City.
Matters of Minor Importance
Hastily Gathered.

Interesting services in all the churches
to-day.
The district court adjourned sine die
yesterday.
The ball to be given by Reynolds post,
u. A. r., will be a grand event.
The latest London invention in hat lin
ing Is a map Of the city printed on silk.
There will be a grand street parade to.
morrow by the Cheyenne Maennerchor.
A frozen rabbit on the rail at Golden,
Ills, upset a handcar, breaking a mans
leg.
A passenger train from the West az
rived in the city about midnight last
night.
A statistician. claims that there is one
divorce for every four and a half mar
riages.
The funeral Of Minnie, infant daughter
of j. F. Rossman, will take place to-day
from the Presbyterian church at 2 o'clock
p. IN.
Governor Moonlight, with Il number of
our trap shots, had a practice shoot yes
terday. The governor showed himself
capable of shooting with the best of them.
William Emerson, an aged inmate of
the McDonouRh county, Illinois, aims
house, died from excitement on learning
that he had been allowed a pension by the
government.
Mr.. AL Dunlap offers $3.50 reward for
the finding of his large solitaire diamond
stud, lost Friday. Finder please leave at
Rollins & Austin's and receive thanks and
money from The owner.
At San Francisco boxers are allowed to
box if they procure a license, but if the
license ~stipulates that twenty rounds arc
to be fought the contest must not be con-
tinued after the stipulated number of
rounds are fought.
The ball to be given by j. F. Reynolds
post, G.. A. R., promises to be one of the
great vents OF the season. Extensive
preparations have been made, and the
members will use every effort to please
and entertain their friends. Tickets, 81
each, may be procured at Hollis, MASKS
and Leibey's and from members of the
post.
The paucity Of u telegraph dispatches
for the past two days may be accounted
for by the fact that over twenty-seyen
miles OF the Western Union line between
Sidney and North Platte we're destroyed
by last Thursdays storm, which cast down
nearly 500 poles and all the six wires Of
the company. After the wire grounded,
passing trains caught and left it in an
e%ntangled mass along the track. 1t will
take several days to repair the line.
In a Broadway. New York, undertak-
err window, a child's coffin with the lid
open has been on exhibition for some
time. Night before last the undertaker's
cat went to sleep in the satin lined box,
and when the undertaken came to open
the place in the morning he saw a crowd
in front of his window, and looking over
the shoulders of the spectators found
them gazing at the small coffin, in which
lay the cat, while six little kittens were
paving their mother for breakfast.
THE LEADER Office has now filled all
back orders for the marvellous library, and
for the accommodation Of subscribers a
hundred additional sets of the library have
been obtained from the publishers. Here
after orders will be filed at this Office
Immediately upon receipt. The forty-fve
books will be mailed, postpaid, to sub
subscribers for fifty cents in addition to
the subscription price. Non subscribers
can obtain the library for 81. so, postpaid.
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